Time to parent : organizing your life to bring out the best in your child and you
Record details
- ISBN: 1627797432
- ISBN: 9781627797436 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1627797432 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781627797436 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781627797436 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1627797432
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Physical Description:
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Intro: kids : an instruction manual -- Time & attention -- Undivided focus : what parents crave -- Loved & listened to : what kids need -- Organizing the job : a simple blueprint -- A guide to the quadrants -- Self assessing -- Where do you gravitate? : your time management profile -- Four time management skills you must master -- Raising a human : doing your P.A.R.T -- Provide -- Arrange -- Relate -- Teach -- Being a human : fueling your S.E.L.F -- Sleep -- Exercise -- Love -- Fun -- Life happens -- When life throws you curveballs -- Moving, divorce, illness, job loss -- Afterword: enjoy the ride. |
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Subject: | Parenting Time management |
Available copies
- 20 of 20 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 20 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | 649.1 MOR (Text) | 33625122820140 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
Time to Parent : Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
Kirkus Reviews
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A new method for taking on "the ultimate time-management project."In her latest self-help book, Morgenstern (SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck, 2008, etc.), an internationally recognized organization consultant who has appeared on Oprah, Today, and other outlets, tackles parenting. To make comprehension easier, the author uses acronyms to break down the subject into eight manageable areas: provide, arrange, relate, and teach, followed by sleep, exercise, love, and fun. The first four areas are geared toward the child, whether it's providing food and a home, sharing teachable moments, or arranging/scheduling a doctor's appointment. The second four sections are for parents, so they can experience life independent of their roles as mom or dadand have it long before the child leaves the nest. Morgenstern provides readers with several assessment tests to help parents discover the areas where they might be under- or overperforming. "No matter how practiced you are at the eight responsibilities in P.A.R.T. and S.E.L.F., what's actually required of parents is the ability to continuously and seamlessly transition among all eight roles, and that's tougher than it looks," writes the author. "Like a master juggler who effortlessly tosses bowling pinsto a specific height at a specific arc and rhythm, so, too, must parents hone the essential time-management muscles that allow you to switch among eight roles while keeping every single one in motion." As we all know, parenting is a daunting task, but Morgenstern's bite-size, achievable goals and skill levels are simple to digest. Backed by scientific data and personal experience, the book is full of straightforward advice presented in an intriguing way. It will appeal especially to those who like to-do lists and find joy in checking off items as they are accomplished.A multipart common-sense approach to parenting that addresses a wide variety of the issues parents face in their complex lives. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Time to Parent : Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
Library Journal
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What more common emotion for parents to experience than doubt, says best-selling author Morgenstern (Organizing from the Inside Out). They must balance the impossible: raising humans and being human. Here, the professional organizer and time-management coach offers the book she craved as her children grew up, a guide to organizing the job of parenting that allows moms and dads to spend more time with their kids, partners, friends, and for self-care by carefully prioritizing their limited hours. According to the author, a lack of clarity often leads to time clutter, which hijacks our time, steals our focus, and results in neglect of not only our children but our own needs. A self--assessment section aids readers in zeroing in on strengths and struggles, with Morgenstern emphasizing a growth-and-presence perspective and providing a multitude of time-saving strategies across the age spectrum to combat the need for perfection that too often paralyzes parents. -VERDICT Morgenstern's many fans will appreciate the organizational insights she brings to the parenting arena as well as the concrete ideas for finding more time for family and self-care. © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
BookList Review
Time to Parent : Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
Booklist
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Type-A parents, rejoice! Morgenstern (Organizing from the Inside Out, 1998) brings her expert organizational and time-management tips and tricks to her first parenting book. The processes she suggests for maximizing time whether parenting, working, or practicing self-care are practical and doable. Readers will appreciate her accessible narrative, relate to examples from her years of helping parents directly in her work as a time-management consultant, and follow her lead to create their own time-management profile. This book is for everyone seeking balance while dealing with the reality of raising children of any age. For parents shouldering extraordinary challenges, like sickness, divorce, job changes, and moves, Morgenstern dedicates a chapter to life's curveballs. Finally, for parents who worry that they should have done more when their children were young, the author is clear that it's never too late to be a present parent and explains numerous ways to achieve time management and save sanity. Morgenstern is known for her previous best-sellers and media presence, and this title will be popular in public libraries.--Joyce McIntosh Copyright 2018 Booklist
Publishers Weekly Review
Time to Parent : Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
Publishers Weekly
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Professional organizer Morgenstern systematically instructs parents on how to find more opportunities for family time with her proven techniques and real-life experiences. By learning to prioritize and stay away from time and energy traps and "low-value activities," parents, she promises, can take control of their schedules and achieve balance. Morgenstern addresses the challenge in two sections: "Raising a Human Being: Doing Your P.A.R.T." focuses on the four core responsibilities of child-rearing (provide, arrange, relate, and teach) and "Being a Human Being: Fueling Your S.E.L.F." refers to four self-nurturing needs (sleep, exercise, love, and fun), each described and presented with instructive anecdotes about real families' problems and solutions. Also vital are four time-management skills: "selective perfectionism," resisting technology's siren call, making mindful transitions between different child-rearing responsibilities, and delegating. Morgenstern's clever maximum-minimum-moderate triage system parses time-consuming tasks into three levels of effort (for instance, for a child's birthday, the maximum-minimum-moderate choices could be, respectively, baking a cake from scratch, buying supermarket cupcakes, and making cupcakes from a mix). Morgenstern successfully demonstrates how the organizational acumen displayed in her previous books can be usefully applied to the all-important job of parenting. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
School Library Journal Review
Time to Parent : Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You
School Library Journal
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What more common emotion for parents to experience than doubt, says best-selling author Morgenstern (Organizing from the Inside Out). They must balance the impossible: raising humans and being human. Here, the professional organizer and time-management coach offers the book she craved as her children grew up, a guide to organizing the job of parenting that allows moms and dads to spend more time with their kids, partners, friends, and for self-care by carefully prioritizing their limited hours. According to the author, a lack of clarity often leads to time clutter, which hijacks our time, steals our focus, and results in neglect of not only our children but our own needs. A self--assessment section aids readers in zeroing in on strengths and struggles, with Morgenstern emphasizing a growth-and-presence perspective and providing a multitude of time-saving strategies across the age spectrum to combat the need for perfection that too often paralyzes parents. -VERDICT Morgenstern's many fans will appreciate the organizational insights she brings to the parenting arena as well as the concrete ideas for finding more time for family and self-care.--Julia M. Reffner, Richmond, VA © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.